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What is something 'unmanly' that you like? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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Gendered question, I know. If you don't identify as a man, please feel free to answer with whatever you want. I meant to post it in the Men's Lib sub but somehow it always bugs for me.

Let's spill the tea lads

I like painting my nails.

I like gardening and I take great pride in my plants and upcoming indoor veggie and herb garden.

I dance when I go out.

I like bright colors.

I like candles that smell nice.

I like flowers.

I like Harry Styles.

I like crocheting.

Whatever you like, be proud of it. There is no such thing as liking something unmanly. Nothing can harm your manliness. Do what you want.

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[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I write poetry, garden in the spring and summer, and enjoy the likes of Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, and Tetris; all of which it puzzles me how those games got classified as 'girly'. Like mf, I'd like to see YOU manage a hundred lines at TGM 20G with steadily-rising garbage lines; see how ya do

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🥁🥁🪇

(Imagine the maracas are cymbals.)

Poetry is a strange one. I also write some and when I mention it I get the strangest looks and have had some awful responses.

I usually refer them to Akala when I hear the gendered shit. If you haven't heard of him, he's a British rapper. He wrote a great book about race. He works with the Royal Shakespeare Company (I think) and goes around schools putting Shakespeare to a beat and explaining how e.g. Tupac rapped in iambic pentameter. He has videos on YouTube and his Fire in the Booth rap is great.

I want to say keep rhyming, Reggaelater Demoman, but my poems don't always rhyme and yours might not, either. Keep writing!

[–] absentthereaper@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My problem is I can't not write rhymes; and it didn't always used to be that way. In elementary, thanks to the teacher who passed along that proclivity to the whole damn class, my bestie was always the one who could write fluent, metered bars; and I just sorta e.e. cummings'd my shit. Liked using the formatting of the lines for aesthetic purposes, but never really had a handle for fitting rhymes to how I was feeling.

...Then I started dipping into UK grime(talm like, Kano, Skepta, Dizzee Rascal, Jme, Tempa T, and them), used that as a springboard to start swimming through the kinds of music my family wanted to keep me away from. (Ironically, my own damn culture, or what shoulda been.) On the other side of a crippling clipping, JPEGMAFIA, Saul Williams, and Stormzy addiction, though, all of my stuff comes out rhyming nowadays. My compositition book looks deadass like a backpacker's lmfao